Silver Wanted Meryl Streep In Demolition Man Sequel

In Demolition Man, a deleted subplot from finds Stallone’s character John Spartan tracking down his daughter, who – thanks to the decades he spent in cryosleep – is now older than he is. This story thread was taken out in editing but co-writer Daniel Waters revealed on The Production Booth podcast that producer Joel Silver wanted to revisit this idea for a potential sequel.

I get a call from Joel. ‘What do you think of this? Meryl Streep is Stallone’s daughter for the sequel. What do you think?’ I’m like ‘Ok, you get Meryl on the set and I’ll come out.’

Well, what a bullet we dodged there. Elsewhere, Sylvester Stallone has been hanging out with his brother Frank…